Did you know that the world’s first commercial Internet-like data communication system was developed in Sweden in the early 1970s? KTH Professor Torsten Cegrell, back then an employee of the electrical engineering firm Asea, developed a routing function to help message packets select the correct path through a network — a solution that made possible the Internet as we know it today.

At the AlbaNova Colloquium, Sir Anthony Leggett, the 2003 Nobel Physics Prize winner, talks about the science of quantum mechanics, looking at how research into the very strange behaviour of atomic particles is beginning to deliver new technologies — even before the fundamental principles are fully understood.